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geoffreylittle's review against another edition
5.0
Serious young writer to watch now and later. Martin’s grasp of life as a millennial is heartbreaking and funny. Her style is unique and her quirky personality is fully depicted in this touching memoir.
chillcox15's review against another edition
4.0
Really good stuff! I think the last couple essays maybe jump a little far from the tempo established in the first 2/3 of the collection, which focuses on childhood and adolescence. I would have actually loved if there were two books here, the first focusing on childhood and the second expanding on the young adulthood stuff after moving away from her family.
katiesendlesstbr's review against another edition
3.0
I absolutely devoured this - Chelsea Martin has led an interesting life and I needed to know ALL the details. However, this didn't fit my tastes as an essay collection reader. This read more like... not a memoir, but just your friend telling you what has happened in her life, listing all the details of what happened, without much reflection. So definitely interesting, and I would really like to read Martin's other works, but this lacked the deeper introspection I have come to expect in a collection like this.
rubyseemorebooks's review against another edition
challenging
funny
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.75
Time capsule, relatable, witty
devindevine's review against another edition
5.0
Easily one of my favorite books of nonfiction. Chelsea makes you feel included, on the joke, on the memory, on the specificity of a small moment. She does it dryly, like you’re watching her eat cereal or drink coffee and over breakfast she’s reciting it all to you. What a privilege to read! I’d say to, to feel like my own “dumb“ teenager years are also encapsulated in this neon book is to feel like it’s a shared time capsule. Full of Hansen brother magazine scraps and a glue gun and black eyeliner and toilet paper and a burned CD of drum solos and first loves and better loves.
udai's review against another edition
4.0
The last read for 2018 which is weirdly convenient. This year has been a roller coaster in a scary good way. This year I really grew up. And in this book I watched Chelsea grow up.
This book was honest and simple and I enjoyed devouring it to the very last bit. I'm really filled with this bittersweet feeling after I've finished this. And also I feel like I have to say something that I'm not really sure of so I'll just end with this quote:
"I was disappointed, but I had been disappointed many times before, and I knew that disappointment was a feeling that not only fades but also makes future disappointments more bearable."
This book was honest and simple and I enjoyed devouring it to the very last bit. I'm really filled with this bittersweet feeling after I've finished this. And also I feel like I have to say something that I'm not really sure of so I'll just end with this quote:
"I was disappointed, but I had been disappointed many times before, and I knew that disappointment was a feeling that not only fades but also makes future disappointments more bearable."
claben's review against another edition
5.0
One part what if Joan Didion was a Poor. One part what if John Dolan was a Girl. And one part, the best part, what if Chelsea Martin was one hundred percent brilliantly herself.
claben's review
5.0
One part what if Joan Didion was a Poor. One part what if John Dolan was a Girl. And one part, the best part, what if Chelsea Martin was one hundred percent brilliantly herself.